I always thought the Borg hivemind was a version of hell. Forever trapped inside your own head, your body being operated by a foreign intelligence, always surrounded by countless trillions of voices that know every single thing about you.

Forever insignificant, just another cog in a mind-blowingly vast machine. A real implementation of the total perspective chair from the Hitchiker's guide.

At least in real life, you can delude yourself into believing that something you do matters.

Sandwyrm:I always thought the Borg hivemind was a version of hell. Forever trapped inside your own head, your body being operated by a foreign intelligence, always surrounded by countless trillions of voices that know every single thing about you.

Forever insignificant, just another cog in a mind-blowingly vast machine. A real implementation of the total perspective chair from the Hitchiker's guide.

At least in real life, you can delude yourself into believing that something you do matters.

Except if the Borg assimilate masturbation. Given enough population you'd always have a part of your mind hitting orgasm.You won't care if something you do matters.

Vanis:Sandwyrm: I always thought the Borg hivemind was a version of hell. Forever trapped inside your own head, your body being operated by a foreign intelligence, always surrounded by countless trillions of voices that know every single thing about you.

Forever insignificant, just another cog in a mind-blowingly vast machine. A real implementation of the total perspective chair from the Hitchiker's guide.

That's not how I understood it at all. I always understood it as you lose your sense of self and become one more part of a sort of Borg "godhead"and as an individual ceased to exist. You never feel trapped or insignificant because you don't exist except as a cell in the Borg brain. The Borg are the ants while the colony, or Borg Collective, is the organism.

But I'm probably wrong. Not that I'd want anything to do with the Borg either way. Scary farkers.

I always thought the Vertigo universe's concept of hell was uniquely frightening. Not too different in the basic mechanics from the typical depiction, but two important details change on who goes there:

1) You don't go unless you believe you deserve to be there.2) Before you make that decision, you are shown the ultimate impacts of everything you've ever done.

To The Escape Zeppelin!:Vanis: Sandwyrm: I always thought the Borg hivemind was a version of hell. Forever trapped inside your own head, your body being operated by a foreign intelligence, always surrounded by countless trillions of voices that know every single thing about you.

Forever insignificant, just another cog in a mind-blowingly vast machine. A real implementation of the total perspective chair from the Hitchiker's guide.

That's not how I understood it at all. I always understood it as you lose your sense of self and become one more part of a sort of Borg "godhead"and as an individual ceased to exist. You never feel trapped or insignificant because you don't exist except as a cell in the Borg brain. The Borg are the ants while the colony, or Borg Collective, is the organism.

But I'm probably wrong. Not that I'd want anything to do with the Borg either way. Scary farkers.

By the time we got to Voyager, the borg had been retconned with lazy writing to the point that some borg had a special hidden matrix vacation land that they could visit while regenerating in their alcoves.

To The Escape Zeppelin!:Vanis: Sandwyrm: I always thought the Borg hivemind was a version of hell. Forever trapped inside your own head, your body being operated by a foreign intelligence, always surrounded by countless trillions of voices that know every single thing about you.

Forever insignificant, just another cog in a mind-blowingly vast machine. A real implementation of the total perspective chair from the Hitchiker's guide.

That's not how I understood it at all. I always understood it as you lose your sense of self and become one more part of a sort of Borg "godhead"and as an individual ceased to exist. You never feel trapped or insignificant because you don't exist except as a cell in the Borg brain. The Borg are the ants while the colony, or Borg Collective, is the organism.

But I'm probably wrong. Not that I'd want anything to do with the Borg either way. Scary farkers.

In Peter David's "Vendetta", as a minor side-plot, Picard's crew capture and de-assimilate a human who was converted while a child. She really, really, really wanted to go back to the Borg, and ended up committing suicide by the end of the novel. She felt totally alone among normal people.

PC LOAD LETTER:Forgot Harry Potter: hanging out at the damn school, frequently trapped in a painting.

I only read like the first three books from that series, but I've heard the painting ghosts actually get to move around and have sex in each others frames. So that's more like an eternal swinger's party.

Back on topic, I guess I don't see the problem with Field of Dreams' afterlife. Archie realized that all the good he'd done in life as a doctor meant more to him than playing baseball would have. And not one player on that field looked down on him for making that decision.

Pfft. Customer service is WAY worse than tech support, imo. At least you don't get people accusing you of stealing from them.

Still treat it the same way as you would treat hell. That demon whipping you is just going through the motions, you're already dead (not just inside) so there's nothing going on that's worth worrying about.

This made me thing of the manga Berserk. Not of its concept of the afterlife as a whole, but of a specific set of circumstances that can occur in the story. Basically, if a special breed of demons kill someone (usually by eating that person), that person's soul will land in Hell forever regardless of what they did in life. The story spares no detail in showing what an utterly farked up fate this is for anyone, and it's not exactly the bad guys who get this treatment.

Having to sit in some perfect utopia where I'm forced to 'watch over' my still living family members... would kind of suck and be pretty boring.

I love my family, don't get me wrong, but I really wouldn't want to spend all my time watching everything they do. Nor do I think my dead relatives have any business watching what I do... that whole concept is kind of creepy, really.

My Mom is convinced that my Grandma is both simultaneously in heaven and watching over her/visiting her all the time. You know, "making things happen", or playing some part in every single good thing that happens in my Mom's life now. Generally, I feel like my Mom's beliefs about my Grandma's death are unhealthy for her. She's never going to 'move on' or even really accept my Grandma's death.

PC LOAD LETTER:Forgot Harry Potter: hanging out at the damn school, frequently trapped in a painting.

Eh, not really them. It's like taking a person, making an VI (virtual intelligence) out of them, and putting it into a computer you can interact with (and one that is aware that it is an VI as well). While they may have the same thoughts and personality as their physical being, the physical being is still gone.

And I say VI instead of AI because I don't think they can learn new things.

Eh, not really them. It's like taking a person, making an VI (virtual intelligence) out of them, and putting it into a computer you can interact with (and one that is aware that it is an VI as well). While they may have the same thoughts and personality as their physical being, the physical being is still gone.

And I say VI instead of AI because I don't think they can learn new things.

Yeah. The moving pictures aren't the people themselves, some of the moving pictures are made before the person dies even. They even have restrictions on their behaviors in some cases. The paintings in the headmaster's office are forced to obey the headmaster regardless of the personalty of the person who is painted.

/Oh god I just went harry potter nerd.//It's not so bad I'm read the whole series to my niece last summer